Ingrid Lunden
Mar 20, 2011 8:39 AM
Facebook has made one of its biggest moves yet in its strategy to dominate mobile services: the social network has acquired Snaptu, a developer of apps for feature phones, for a sum believed to be up to $70 million. The acquisition is Facebook’s first outside of the U.S. and enhances…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 15, 2010 11:14 AM
Mobile app startup Snaptu has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sequoia Capital. Snaptu’s free app lets users access a series of services, including Facebook, Twitter, the weather, and a news reader. The selling point: It works on any phone that runs Java (which means most). So far, Snaptu…
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